| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: who will do evil therein and shed blood? we celebrate Thy praise and
hallow Thee.' Said (the Lord), 'I know what ye know not.' And He
taught Adam the names, all of them; then He propounded them to the
angels and said, 'Declare to me the names of these, if ye are
truthful.' They said, 'Glory be to Thee! no knowledge is ours but what
Thou thyself hast taught us, verily, Thou art the knowing, the
wise.' Said the Lord, 'O Adam declare to them their names;' and when
he had declared to them their names He said, 'Did I not say to you,
I know the secrets of the heavens and of the earth, and I know what ye
show and what ye were hiding?' And when we said to the angels,
'Adore Adam,' they adored him save only Iblis, who refused and was too
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: MOERIS
Cease, boy, and get we to the work in hand:
We shall sing better when himself is come.
ECLOGUE X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
Who would not sing for Gallus? So, when thou
Beneath Sicanian billows glidest on,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: Troubert to Mademoiselle Gamard's friends when she was forced to tell
them that her "evenings" must be given up. "He is a man of the world,
and a good liver! He wants fashion, luxury, witty conversation, and
the scandals of the town."
These words of course obliged Mademoiselle Gamard to defend herself at
Birotteau's expense.
"He is not much a man of the world," she said. "If it had not been for
the Abbe Chapeloud he would never have been received at Madame de
Listomere's. Oh, what didn't I lose in losing the Abbe Chapeloud! Such
an amiable man, and so easy to live with! In twelve whole years I
never had the slightest difficulty or disagreement with him."
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